Passport Index Dataset (Updated Fork)

This is a fork of ilyankou/passport-index-dataset with additional updates from official consular and embassy sources.

About This Fork

This repository maintains the original passport index dataset and applies corrections based on verified embassy and consular website announcements. All updates are documented with official sources.

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Updates Log

China

Applied 2025-12-23.

Passport	Old	New
Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sweden	visa required	30
Brunei	15	30

Source: National Immigration Administration of China

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Japan

Applied 2025-12-24.

Passport	Old	New
Montenegro, Paraguay, Peru	visa required	90
United Arab Emirates	30	90

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

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Indonesia

Applied 2025-12-24.

Passport	Old	New
Brazil, Peru, Turkey	visa on arrival	30

Source: Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia

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Belarus

Applied 2025-12-24.

Passport	Old	New
Vietnam	visa required	30

Source: Embassy of Belarus in Vietnam

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Namibia

Applied 2025-12-24. Underlying policy effective 1 April 2025.

Passport	Old	New
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan	90	visa on arrival

Source: Embassy of Namibia in Sweden

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Updates 2026-01 to 2026-04

Applied 2026-05-01. Each section's effective date is in the source line.

China (additional expansion)

Passport	Old	New
Canada, United Kingdom	visa required	30

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China — effective 17 February 2026 through 31 December 2026.

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Turkey

Passport	Old	New
China	visa required	visa free

Source: Daily Sabah — Türkiye grants visa-free travel to Chinese nationals — Turkish presidential decree, Official Gazette 1 January 2026; up to 90 days within any 180-day period.

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Philippines

Passport	Old	New
China	visa required	14

Source: Philippines DFA (Chongqing PCG) — 14-day visa-free for Chinese nationals via NAIA Manila and Mactan-Cebu airports, valid 16 January 2026 to 15 January 2027.

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Russia ↔ Myanmar (mutual)

Passport	Old	New
Myanmar (entering Russia)	visa required	visa free

Source: TASS — Russia-Myanmar visa-abolition agreement — agreement signed 28 October 2025 in Minsk, in force from 27 January 2026; up to 30 days per visit.

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India (e-visa expansion)

Passport	Old	New
San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles	visa required	e-visa
Algeria, Armenia, Fiji, Kenya, North Macedonia, Uruguay	visa required	e-visa

Source: Indian e-Visa portal — MHA expansions of 14 January 2026 and 8 February 2026.

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Uzbekistan

Passport	Old	New
United States	e-visa	30

Source: Government of Uzbekistan — State Committee for Tourism announcement — Presidential Decree No. 203 of 3 November 2025; visa-free 30-day stays for US nationals effective 1 January 2026.

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Kyrgyzstan (reduction)

Passport	Old	New
Australia, New Zealand, United States	60	30

Source: Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic — legal portal (Resolution No. 855 of 31 December 2025); supplementary: Visa policy of Kyrgyzstan (Wikipedia). Kyrgyzstan reduced visa-free stay for 55 countries from 60 to 30 days within a 60-day period, effective 31 December 2025. The MFA consular pages have not yet been refreshed at the time of this update.

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Afghanistan (e-visa launch)

Passport	Old	New
United States, Australia	visa required	e-visa

Source: eafghans.com e-Visa portal — Afghanistan launched e-Visa system in March 2026; 30-day single entry, Kabul airport only, available to nearly all nationalities except Israelis.

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Pakistan (VOA suspension)

Passport	Old	New
Australia, New Zealand	visa on arrival / eta	e-visa

Source: Pakistan Online Visa System (NADRA) — the free Visa-Prior-to-Arrival option was silently removed from the portal; supplementary: Visa policy of Pakistan (Wikipedia). Pakistan withdrew the free VPA program for 126 nationalities effective 1 January 2026; paid e-Visa now required. No press release was issued by MOI/MOFA/DGI&P.

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Qatar

Passport	Old	New
Lebanon	visa on arrival	visa required

Source: EY tax alert — Qatar suspends visa-on-arrival for Lebanese nationals — effective 2 April 2026; pre-approved visa via Hayya platform required.

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Armenia–Gulf bloc

Passport	Old	New
Armenia (entering Saudi Arabia)	visa required	visa free
Saudi Arabia (entering Armenia)	e-visa	visa free

Source: Fragomen — UAE visa waiver for Armenian nationals — Armenia acceded to the UAE-Saudi-Qatar visa-free framework on 22 February 2026.

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Papua New Guinea ↔ UAE

Passport	Old	New
Papua New Guinea (entering UAE)	e-visa	30
UAE (entering Papua New Guinea)	e-visa	30

Source: PNG Government — PNG and UAE visa waiver MoU — MoU signed 4 February 2026, ordinary passports up to 30 days.

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Hong Kong → Azerbaijan

Passport	Old	New
Hong Kong	e-visa	30

Source: Government of Hong Kong — one-year pilot from 2 February 2026 to 2 February 2027 allowing up to three visa-free visits at 30 days each.

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Cape Verde (visa-on-arrival removal)

Passport	Old	New
Costa Rica, Egypt, Jamaica, Mexico, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe	visa on arrival	visa required

Source: Cape Verde EASE portal — Decree No. 244/GMAI/2025 (Boletim Oficial No. 223, II Series, 24 November 2025) ended visa-on-arrival for 96 nationalities effective 1 January 2026.

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Uganda (visa-free expansion)

Passport	Old	New
Mozambique	e-visa	visa free

Source: Uganda Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control — visa-free entry for 40 nationalities (up to 90 days), announced 11 March 2026.

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Mexico

Passport	Old	New
Brazil	visa required	e-visa

Source: Mexican SRE — Mexico reinstated electronic Visitor Visa for Brazilian nationals arriving by air for tourism/business, effective 5 February 2026.

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Nicaragua (visa-free withdrawal)

Passport	Old	New
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago	visa free / 90	visa required
Colombia, Peru	visa on arrival	visa required

Source: Ministerio del Interior de Nicaragua — Disposición No. 002-2026 (also mirrored on INAC) — DGME Disposición No. 002-2026 issued 13 February 2026, published 18 February 2026, effective 16 February 2026; reclassifies several Caribbean and Latin American nationalities into Category C ("visa consultada") requiring prior centralised DGME approval.

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United States (Proclamation 10998 — visa suspensions)

Passport	Old	New
Haiti	visa required	no admission

Source: Proclamation 10998 full text (American Presidency Project) and US Department of State notice — issued 16 December 2025, effective 1 January 2026. Haiti receives a full suspension of immigrant and nonimmigrant visa categories. Cuba, Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica receive partial suspensions limited to B-1/B-2 visitor, F/M/J student/exchange and immigrant visas — diplomatic, transit, and employment categories remain available, so the dataset value remains visa required for those four.

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United Kingdom (ETA removal)

Passport	Old	New
Saint Lucia	eta	visa required

Source: UK Home Office Statement of Changes HC 1691 — effective 5 March 2026; Saint Lucian nationals require Standard Visitor Visa.

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Updates 2026-05

Brazil (visa-free for China)

Applied 2026-06-09.

Passport	Destination	Old	New
China	Brazil	visa required	30

Source: Government of China / Diário Oficial da União — effective 11 May 2026 through 31 December 2026; 30-day non-extendable stay for ordinary passport holders, reciprocating China's exemption for Brazilians.

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Maldives ↔ Seychelles (mutual visa waiver)

Applied 2026-06-09.

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Seychelles	Maldives	visa on arrival	30

Source: VisasNews — reciprocal 30-day visa waiver in force 15 May 2026. Maldives → Seychelles was already visa-free (90 days).

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Updates 2026-06

Applied 2026-06-11. Each section's effective date is in the source line.

Russia ↔ Saudi Arabia (mutual visa waiver)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Russia	Saudi Arabia	visa on arrival	90
Saudi Arabia	Russia	e-visa	90

Source: VisaVerge, Wego — agreement signed in Riyadh 1 December 2025, in force 11 May 2026; up to 90 days per calendar year for tourism, business, visits, and transit (work, study, Hajj/Umrah excluded).

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Togo (visa-free for all African nationals)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe	Togo	e-visa	30

Source: Africanews, VisasNews — Cabinet approved 18 May 2026; 30-day visa-free entry for all African passports at all entry points. A free online travel declaration (voyage.gouv.tg) is still required at least 24h before arrival. ECOWAS passports were already visa-free and are unchanged.

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Ghana (pre-arrival e-visa replaces visa on arrival)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Algeria, Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, DR Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, South Sudan, Tunisia, Zambia	Ghana	visa on arrival	e-visa

Source: Ghana MFA, KPMG — e-visa portal launched 25 May 2026 (Africa Day); pre-arrival application now mandatory, fee-free for African passport holders. ECOWAS and other visa-free passports unchanged.

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United Arab Emirates (temporary suspension — Ebola health measure)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
DR Congo, Uganda, South Sudan	United Arab Emirates	e-visa	no admission

Source: Gulf News — effective 6 June 2026; all new visa issuance suspended and entry denied (including via third countries) unless outside the affected countries for more than 21 days. Temporary, open-ended.

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Turkey (visa-free for Australia)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Australia	Turkey	visa on arrival	90

Source: Turkish Minute, VisasNews — unilateral, effective 17 April 2026; 90 days in any 180.

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Azerbaijan ↔ Maldives (mutual visa waiver)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Azerbaijan	Maldives	visa on arrival	90
Maldives	Azerbaijan	e-visa	90

Source: AZERTAC — signed New York 24 September 2025, in force 29 April 2026; 90-day stays.

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Morocco (AEVM exemption for Mali)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Mali	Morocco	eta	90

Source: Morocco World News, VisasNews — effective 27 April 2026; Malian nationals no longer need the AEVM electronic travel authorization. Morocco's AEVM now applies only to Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ghana, and Guinea.

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Gabon (entry suspension for US citizens)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
United States	Gabon	e-visa	no admission

Source: OSAC — effective 1 January 2026; Gabon suspended visa issuance and entry for US citizens in reciprocity for the US travel ban (Proclamation 10998).

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Canada (eTA for Qatar)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Qatar	Canada	visa required	eta

Source: VisaHQ News, VisasNews — effective 25 November 2025; Qatari citizens eligible for eTA (air arrivals) instead of a visitor visa.

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Russia ↔ Jordan (mutual visa waiver)

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Russia	Jordan	visa on arrival	30
Jordan	Russia	e-visa	30

Source: TASS — in force 13 December 2025; 30 days per visit, 90 days per year.

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Vietnam (45-day visa exemption for 12 European countries)

Backfill of a missed policy. Applied 2026-06-14; effective 15 August 2025.

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland	Vietnam	e-visa	45

Source: Vietnam Tourism — New visa exemption policies effective 15 August 2025, Embassy of Vietnam in Japan — Resolution 229/NQ-CP under the Tourism Development Stimulus Program; 45-day visa-free stay regardless of passport type, in force 15 August 2025 through 14 August 2028.

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Maldives (entry ban for Israeli passport holders)

Applied 2026-06-14; effective 15 April 2025.

Passport	Destination	Old	New
Israel	Maldives	visa on arrival	no admission

Source: The President's Office of Maldives, CNN — President Muizzu ratified the Third Amendment to the Immigration Act on 15 April 2025, prohibiting entry of Israeli passport holders. The Maldives grants free 30-day visa on arrival to every other nationality; this is the sole exclusion. (Dual nationals may still enter on a non-Israeli passport.)

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Suriname (Tourist Card recoding — stale data fix)

Applied 2026-06-14. Reflects the standing e-Tourist Card system.

Suriname's entry policy has three tiers, and the dataset had most of them wrong (153 nationalities were marked visa required, and a handful were marked visa-free for no current reason). Corrected:

Passport	Destination	Old	New
153 nationalities previously marked visa required	Suriname	visa required	eta
China, Malaysia, Philippines, Serbia	Suriname	30	eta
Chile, Denmark, Hong Kong, Sweden	Suriname	90	eta
Tunisia	Suriname	90	e-visa

The e-Tourist Card (USD/EUR 50, applied online before arrival, up to 90 days) is open to all nationalities except a short visa-required list. It is a paid electronic pre-arrival authorisation with no consular discretion — coded eta, consistent with how this dataset already codes the near-identical Kenya eTA. The previous visa-free outliers (notably Sweden at 90) were stale and had been inflating those passports' scores. Left unchanged: the visa-free CARICOM/South-American group (180) and the genuine visa/e-Visa list (e-visa, 21 countries including Tunisia, which moved off the stale visa-free value).

Source: Visa policy of Suriname (Wikipedia), corroborated by the Consulate General of Suriname in Amsterdam — the dataset's existing visa-required list already matched the official Category-3 list exactly, confirming the categorisation.

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Watching (announced, not yet effective — not applied)

• Thailand: Cabinet approved (19 May 2026) replacing the 60-day visa exemption with 30-day (54 countries) / 15-day tiers; takes effect 15 days after Royal Gazette publication, which had not happened as of 11 June 2026. TAT
• Azerbaijan → Japan: unilateral visa waiver announced 10 June 2026, effective date pending. APA
• Uruguay → China: visa waiver announced ~4 June 2026, details pending.
• Russia ↔ Oman: ratified, start date not announced. Oman MFA
• Libya: airport visa-on-arrival suspended ~10 June 2026 pending a new framework — no dataset cells were coded as Libya VOA, so nothing to change. Xinhua

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Original Dataset Documentation

About datasets

There are 6 datasets with identical visa requirements data. Three datasets are matrix and three are long (tidy) format. Each comes in 3 versions: with country codes as specified in ISO-2 (two-letter codes), ISO-3 (three-letter codes), and full country names from no particular standard.

• In distance matrices (files with matrix in the filename), the first column represents a passport (=from), each remaining column represents a destination (=to).
• Files in tidy format (with tidy in filename) have three columns: passport (from), destination (to), and the requirement.

Dataset values

Value	Explanation
7-360	Number of visa-free days, where available
visa free	Visa-free travel (where number of days is unknown or not applicable)
visa on arrival	Destinations that grant visa on arrival
eta	Electronic travel authorisation (ESTA, eTA, etc.)
e-visa	e-Visas (excludes ETAs)
visa required	Obtaining a visa is required for travel
no admission	Entry not permitted
-1	where passport=destination

Source & License

Original dataset source: https://www.passportindex.org

This fork: MIT license, same as original.